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Kate Grenville suggests we read Elizabeth Macarthur’s letters as ‘a wonderful piece of fiction, sustained over sixty years’. They were exercises in doubleness, concealment, and delicious irony.
Up to 40% of all jobs now are tipped to be taken over by AI and robots in the next few decades. My grandmother, born on a farm almost a century ago, has some advice on how to cope.
Such an expansive scheme is very expensive. It has been costed at A$77.6 billion over the next decade, funded with new taxes on big corporations and billionaires.
We can expect political ads to continue to ramp up over the coming weeks. The onus will be on each voter to sift through the spin for the facts and for the policies that matter to them.
From the Easter Show to the ‘busy lady’ competition in the Australian Women’s Weekly, we’ve been competitive cookers for over 100 years.
Tadeusz Kościuszko was a revolutionary thinker who was Commander in Chief of the Polish-Lithuanian armed forces.
Politicians aren’t necessarily the best mediators. International experts on peace mediation should be involved.
The rate of voter participation in federal elections by people living in remote Indigenous communities have been in decline. Past policies have put obstacles in place, and these need to be addressed.
The poems in The Honey of Man may cast a harsh light on human cruelties and stupidities, but they avoid hopelessness or helplessness.
It’s totally fine to eat chocolate with a white film on the surface. But what is it, how did it get there, and how can it be avoided?
The Biden administration has a difficult task in punishing Russia for its invasion without becoming embroiled in a full-scale war.
What are the key seats and issues affecting Australians? Six experts tell us what to expect in Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and New South Wales.
A new survey shows there is no material difference between the major parties’ China policies. Style and tone might be what matter, whoever wins the election.
Not only are great-power conflict, nuclear war and the end of civilisation as we know it still real possibilities, our collective capacity to manage them may be decreasing.
You might have heard singing helps lower stress hormones – but there are so many benefits to warming up our voices and letting loose.
Current parental leave schemes reinforce old gender stereotypes and the pay gap between women and men. Overseas experience shows better targeted leave for new fathers helps everyone.
From fibre to fabric. The process of making textiles has been important to humans for almost 35,000 years.
George Christensen caused the government a heap of trouble while he was in the Nationals, and is set to be a pest now he’s jumped ship.
Michelle Grattan speaks with former Australian ambassador to the United States Joe Hockey about his new memoir titled Diplomatic
One Nation, early voting and what parties learn from overseas campaigns
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In the third episode of our new election podcast, Below the Line, our expert panel discuss a Coalition maverick's defection to One Nation, global exchanges of campaign staff, voting by phone and more.
Captive breeding of koalas could be done much more cheaply and avoid inbreeding issues if we embrace assisted reproduction.
New software that can generate images and text on command may deliver ‘good enough’ creativity in advertising, copywriting, stock imagery and graphic design.
Sri Lanka is facing one of its worst ever economic crises. There are a host of reasons, but China is not to blame.
Labor has announced it would introduce urgent care centres to take the pressure off emergency departments if it were elected. Would they work?